whole grains

focaccia sourdough bread

Easy Recipe for Sourdough Bread | Beginner-Friendly Sourdough Focaccia Bread

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Years ago, when I started making sourdough bread, I envisioned beautiful round loaves, dusted in white rice flour and decorated with intricate floral patterns slashed into the surface and baked to perfection. You know the ones I’m talking about. That classic sourdough bread makes you think, “Man, I could totally learn how to bake that. […]

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spelt banana bread

Whole Wheat Spelt Banana Bread Recipe | Low-Gluten, Egg-Free, and Dairy-Free Options!

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Do you love banana bread? It’s one of those desserts/breakfasts/snacks/whatever that tastes exactly like my childhood. We always made banana bread. Not only was it perfect for our tight budget (no food waste here!), but it was a tasty treat for me and my brothers and sisters.  As we grew up, we learned how to

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Kids Test Gluten-Free Tortillas (Recipe for 100% Whole Grain Gluten-Free Tortillas with No Gums!)

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Want to experiment on homemade gluten-free tortillas with me? We’ve even done a keto friendly tortilla recipe. Leah and I made some videos of our testing with the Mockmill and einkorn and gluten-free grains in tortillas, and I wanted to let you know a bit about what you’ll see. We’ve made homemade whole wheat tortillas

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In Search of the Best Freshly Milled Pizza Dough Recipe Ever: The Kitchen Stewardship Gauntlet

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The smell of something baking in the oven can literally make my kids swoon with joy, and the aroma of freshly baked honey whole wheat sourdough bread or whole wheat tortillas frying up on the griddle used to be a common occurrence around here. As we’ve cut down on grains over the years, any baking

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Fruit pizza just got a lot healthier! Made with real ingredients it will soon become a family favorite.

Healthy (and Tasty!) Fruit Pizza Recipe

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With a name like “fruit pizza,” you’d think you were making a healthy dessert that might actually have some nourishment for  your kids. But…Every recipe I’ve ever seen for fruit pizza uses sugar cookie dough as the base. Usually they call for pre-packaged, trans-fat and white-sugar laden monstrosities, and super sugary frosting too. That bums me

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Taco Quinoa Chili

Vegetarian Taco Quinoa Chili Recipe (for Instant Pot too!)

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My husband will tell you he’s not a picky eater, but don’t believe a word of it. Even now that I’ve convinced him real food is good for us, there are foods he won’t touch. He doesn’t like cucumbers, Brussels sprouts, beets, sweet potatoes or any other mushy orange vegetable, and quinoa. Until now. Apparently

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silly pancake meal - 3 kinds of pancakes (7) (475x317)

Make a Silly Meal: Pancakes, Pancakes, and More Pancakes

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Q: “Mom, what’s for dinner?” A: “Pancakes.” “What else?” “A side of pancakes. Oh, and we’re starting with pancakes. Did I mention there will be pancakes for dessert?” Every so often, we have a meal of pancakes. With pancakes as the side. And pancakes for dessert. It may sound like this is a “compromise meal”

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That Whole Grains Question: Is It Time for “To Soak or Not to Soak?”

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If I make my mom’s biscuit recipe with unbleached, unbromated wheat flour, home-rendered pastured lard, Real Salt, and organic, grassfed milk, but the flour happens to have all the bran and all the germ sifted out of it, is my resulting biscuit – which will be so fluffy and melt-in-your-mouth smeared with pastured butter that

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Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat: King Arthur Flour’s 100% Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread (no. 8)

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In high school one of  my favorite breakfasts was a leftover baked potato and a glass of orange juice, eaten standing up a the counter. My mom and I used to joke that if you eat standing up, the calories don’t count (ha!). Anyone else like to have dinner leftovers for breakfast? How about in

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Nourishing Traditions Soaked Buttermilk Bread

Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat: Nourishing Traditions Soaked Buttermilk Bread (no. 7)

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I was almost certain this recipe would be a bust. I’m glad my bad attitude didn’t taint the whole process, because I have to say I was thoroughly surprised and impressed by the end result. I’d often heard of people having bad experiences with the baking recipes in particular in Nourishing Traditions, and I always

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